I'm sorry I misspoke. I broke a spindle at Hallett.Originally Posted by drecords
JJ
I'm sorry I misspoke. I broke a spindle at Hallett.
JJ
That’s the first time I have seen the track let anyone use turn 1 and 2 banking. They used to make us use the flat area on the bottom of the banking for turn 1,2 and then we could use the bank for the other side of the track for whatever reason. So with turn 1,2 banking this track just got a whole lot faster haha and brakes even more critical!!
“A man with no enemies is a man with no character.”
― Paul Newman
Definitely, that braking zone into turn 3 was really tempting to try and push it back, but you come in there at vmax and even a slight bit of lockup would result in overcooking into the turn or missing it all together. Really fun when you get it right.
Daniel Records
CMC # 34
I can vouch for T3. Brake early, brake hard.
- Josh
CMC #50
Great corner, never got it right. There is always next year.
Last edited by centerville; 08-20-2019 at 10:52 PM.
Mike
No more race car
Teething pains of NASA running there notwithstanding, it sounds like you guys had a great time and will be eager to go back for future events. That's excellent
Al Fernandez
To be fair, looking at the failure surface, it seems likely you actually cracked your spindle at Cresson when you broke the strut. It was probably difficult/impossible to see with your eyes at the time. If you had done a crack check at any point between then and Hallett, the failure would have been obvious.
For anyone that takes a big hit, doing a crack check on suspected parts is pretty easy. I give a class on fatigue failures/crack checking for my DE students. There isn't an equivalent outlet for the racers but I'm happy to give the class if someone wants to see it...
Richard P.
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